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hyperenhancement

noun

Etymology

From hyper- + enhancement.

  1. derived from in
  2. derived from *altiare✻ — “raise”
  3. derived from enhaucier — “enhance, raise”
  4. inherited from enhauncen
  5. suffixed as enhancement — “enhance + ment”
  6. prefixed as hyperenhancement — “hyper + enhancement”

Definitions

  1. Greater than normal enhancement.

  2. Greater than background-level brightness.

    • For example, transmural hyperenhancements ranging from 26 to 50 percent in dysfunctional myocardial segments predicted with a less than 50 percent accuracy a postrevascularization improvement in contractile function.
    • One would expect the area of hypoenhancement on first-pass imaging to be larger than that of hyperenhancement on delayed contrast-enhanced imaging.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for hyperenhancement. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA